Touch Of Pink (2004)
| Director: | Ian Iqbal Rashid |
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| Starring: | Jimi Mistry Kyle MacLachlan Kristen Holden-Ried Suleka Mathew Brian George |
| Year of release: | 2004 |
| Running time: | 91 |
| Age restriction: | PG S |
| Category: | Comedy Gay & Lesbian Films |
Canadian writer\/director Ian Iqbal Rashid makes his feature film debut with the romantic comedy Touch of Pink. Jimi Mistry plays Alim, an young gay Ismali-Canadian living in a fashionable section of London. He has an active fantasy life involving Kyle MacLachlan, who appears as the charming ghost of Cary Grant. Alim also has an active social life in the real world with his actual boyfriend Giles (Kristen Holden-Ried). His life of leisure is interrupted when his mother Nuru (Suleka Mathew) arrives in town unexpectedly from Toronto. She also has a secret plan to take him back with her to Canada so he can settle down and find a nice Muslim girl to marry. Touch of Pink premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2004.
